2024-04-11 01:56:51
The president of Pakistan, Arif Alvi, announced this Monday that he has tested positive for coronavirus, a week after receiving the first dose of the vaccine and while the country faces the worst figures of the pandemic in the last nine months.
“I have tested positive for COVID-19. May Allah have mercy on all those affected by COVID,” he wrote on his Twitter account, where he also explained that he was waiting. the second dose of the vaccine after receiving the first one a week ago.
“I received the first dose of the vaccine, but antibodies begin to develop after the second dose, which was due to be administered in a week. Continue to be careful,” said the Pakistani president.
Alvi is not the first member of the Government to contract the disease, since this Monday the Minister of Defense, Pervez Khattak, also tested positive for coronavirus. Already on March 20, it was the turn of Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife.
Also this day, Pakistani authorities have decreed stricter measures in more than two dozen cities where the highest infection rate has been recorded and the vaccination campaign has begun for people aged 50 and over.
In the last 24 hours, 4,525 new positives have been registered and 41 deaths related to the disease, which has already cost the lives of 14,256 people. The total number of accumulated cases is 659,116.
Last month, Pakistan launched the vaccination of frontline health workers. However, the arrival of those first doses as part of a gift from the Government of China raised such suspicion. in some that until now only a small part of them have been vaccinated. (01)